The Roberts
Court is - it can now be said most confidently - the
most political in American
history. Today's surprising - to almost everyone - upholding of the Affordable
Care Act is proof that it's even more politicized than we thought.

If the decision had gone the way most people expected - with
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

In a blog post entitled "Does Kagan Support Stoning?" Mother Jones's Stephanie Mencimer explains the twisted attempt at logic that passes for the neoconservative movement's attempt to "prove" that Elena Kagan, who if confirmed would become the eighth Jewish justice on the US Supreme Court, in some way backs Islamic sharia law.

What remains to be seen is whether she will back the Fair Elections Now Act, which would provide public funding for federal elections (similar to the Clean Election system in Maine), some other attempt to solve the problem of corporate personhood, or take no legislative position at all.